Category Archives: Security

Backups!

November 23, 2009 – 3:06 am

A friend of mine just reported me a very tragic event. His bag with his laptop and his backups hard drive was stolen. I can feel his pain, having experienced the very same situation once, and I am writing here hints for him and the rest of the world to protect yourself from this eventuality. [...]

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No shame for “Import your contacts” feature

January 2, 2009 – 3:44 pm

I am negatively astonished (and I am not alone) by a new diffuse practice of many networking websites: during the registration process, they ask your Gmail (or other webmail’s) personal username and password, so to login on your behalf and import your address book contacts. What? Giving your personal password to another website allows them [...]

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